El Paso Politics

Its election season and the drama over maps is largely resolved. The biggest deal on the local scene this election cycle will be the legislative races.  Three of El Paso's delegation sold-out the rest of the Democrats, working class El Pasoans, and progressives over the summer allowing the Republicans to pass anti-Latino, anti-women, and anti-African-American voting bills in exchange to get nice and comfy safe seats.  Trust me - we will examine that a lot more closely later. For now - lets talk judicial seats. Unless your name is Marcos Lizarraga, if you're a male running for a judicial seat against a Latina, you can kiss your chances good-bye. Latinas are on a major roll running for elected office.  Judge Marcos Lizarraga always seems to win no matter how hard his opponents come after him and no matter how much they spend.  But basically every other male judge in town should be looking over their shoulders because, well, they are facing a steep climb.  The JP c...

The local GOP's congressional candidates are always one big joke. Its almost like they go out of their way to find the weirdest, most eccentric, craziest, most controversial, or most extreme candidate they can possibly find and make them their party's nominee.  Well, Irene "La Mentirosa" Armendariz Jackson is yet again running to earn the right to get beat by Congresswoman Escobar again in November 2022.  Well when I saw an invitation from Irene  Armendariz  Jackson for a fundraiser at Grace Gardens, I was so surprised to see the guest speaker that I thought it was a friend of mine having fun with MS Pic Art circa Windows 2000.  Because I thought, no candidate would be stupid enough to have this guy as the main speaker. But yet again, the El Paso GOP surpasses the level of stupidity I give them credit for.  Yes ladies and gentlemen, Irene  Armendariz  Jackson has an indicted elected official as her big campaign draw.  Yes ladies and gentleme...